1. US economy had to be in shit for people to look beyond skin color.
2. The outgoing administration had to be in government for 2 straight terms and anti incombancy factor as high as it can be.
3. The outgoing president had to have a miserable public image.
4. US as a nation had to be disliked by people of a lot of nations.
5. The country had to be in the worst recession in over a century.
6. The presidential hopeful had to have a white mom even when he is black to make people look beyond skin and attract voters outside of his community.
7. The presidential hopeful had to have follwoed christianity all his life even when his father was a muslim.
8. The other presidential hopeful(mccain) had to be old enough for people to fear that he might not be able to complete his term in office.
9. The other presidential hopeful(mccain) had to make the error of choosing a extremely unworthy vice president(palin) making people doubt his own judgement
10. The entire business community, scientific community had to lobby for the presidential hopeful to make people trust him eough.
11. The presidential hopeful had to choose his most vocal critic as his vice president.
12. The presidential hopeful had to get loyalities from his own strongest competitor and her followers(hilary)
13. The presidential hopeful had to be one of the best orators politics has seen for quite some time.
14. The presidential hopeful had to convince people he has always been a christian and not a muslim.
15. Take personal allegations of his links with terrorists.
16. Make people from his oppositions side publicly support him(powel).
These factors and many other factors coming together are reasons why Obama even though he is a black in a white peoples country could make it to thr white house.
And this is as rare as it gets. Good for you america.
George did you congratulate Obama by the way? No?
